SOPS reduces the surface area you need to cover. You can use Age as a backend and then you only need a long lived private key on the server. https://github.com/getsops/sops
The bad guys will steal that private key and decrypt the encrypted secrets the same way they can steal the unencrypted secrets directly.
The bad guys will steal that private key and decrypt the encrypted secrets the same way they can steal the unencrypted secrets directly.